CNC Tool Data Transfer Using Off-Tool Storage and Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for transmitting tool presetting, measuring, and processing data sets to CNC machine tools are not highly automated, leading to inefficiencies in data handling and a risk of errors during tool loading and processing.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a data communication unit and a storage medium, such as an electronic chip, that automatically reads and transmits tool data sets to a CNC machine tool using a tool identification unit, reducing manual intervention and enabling wireless communication, thus enhancing data accuracy and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual data handling methods are used for tool presetting, measuring, and processing data sets, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity decreases and error risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automation where the CNC machine tool automatically identifies the machining tool via tool identification unit, retrieves corresponding data sets from storage medium, and transmits them without manual intervention. This eliminates manual data handling while maintaining system simplicity through automated workflows.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical data handling with automated electronic data communication. The data communication unit electronically transmits tool data sets from storage medium to CNC machine tool, substituting manual data entry and physical data carrier handling with automated electronic processes.
2Productivity
If automated data transmission is implemented, then productivity increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service automation where the CNC machine tool autonomously identifies the machining tool, retrieves the correct data sets from the storage medium using the tool identification unit, and transmits them automatically. This eliminates manual intervention in the data transmission process while maintaining operational simplicity.
3Reliability
If data is stored on a separate storage medium rather than on the tool itself, then manufacturing precision is improved through better data management, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a separate storage medium as an intermediary between tool manufacturing/preparation and tool usage. This storage medium centrally stores tool data sets and provides them to the CNC machine tool via data communication unit, ensuring data accuracy and consistency while enabling flexible data management independent of the physical tool.
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AI summary
A method for transmitting at least one tool presetting data set of a machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium, at least one tool measuring data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium and/or at least one tool processing data set of the machining tool that is stored on an, in particular electronic, storage medium to a machine tool that is controlled via Computerized Numerical Control [CNC machine tool], with a data communication unit, wherein in a tool delivery step at least the machining tool is delivered to the CNC machine tool and wherein in a tool identification step the delivered machining tool is identified via a tool identification unit, which is in particular allocated to the CNC machine tool, the method including a read-out step, which is in particular situated temporally after the tool identification step, in which at least the tool presetting data set of the machining tool, the tool measuring data set of the machining tool and/or the tool processing data set of the machining tool are/is read out of the storage medium by the data communication unit and is transmitted to a data processing unit that is allocated to the CNC machine tool, in particular to the CNC machine tool, wherein the storage medium is arranged apart from the machining tool, apart from a tool holder holding the machining tool and apart from the CNC machine tool.